Fairview, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Lavonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30553. It stands on Clarks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Martin quadrangle.

Fairview within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1891 USGS Carnesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Martin quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

261 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 261 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 429 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 26 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	149
Equipment and vehicle use	39
Arson/incendiarism	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Smoking	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-FRANKLIN-006
5 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019FRANKLIN001
5 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-012
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-010
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Highway Deposits	Mica	Occurrence
	Weldon Mine	Mica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Salubrity (historical)	3.0 miles	15
Lavonia	3.5 miles	15
Parhams	4.2 miles	15
Carnesville	4.7 miles	15
Vandiver	4.7 miles	13
Red Hill	5.3 miles	13
Whitworth	6.3 miles	15
Gumlog	6.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331688. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.